The early human discovery dating back to 2400 BC was made by analyzing clay fragments at a 16-year-long archaeological dig in Syria.

Long before alphabets came into existence, human civilisations used different means to communicate such as images and ...

A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...

Archaeological discoveries indicate that alphabetic writing dates back 500 years earlier than previously believed. What ...

Although far from the oldest writing we have found, these cylinders are 500 years older than any previously known example of alphabetic script, if that is indeed what they carry.

For decades, it's been a common belief that the Ancient Egyptians were responsible for the very first alphabet. Now, a shocking finding challenges this assumption, pushing back the age of the ...

Researchers have discovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing was etched onto clay cylinders discovered during a dig at an ancient Syrian city.

This discovery, dated to around 2400 BCE, predates previously known alphabetic scripts by approximately 500 years, ...